Ability and Tolerance

Ability

Ability noun - The physical or mental power to do something.

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Tolerance and ability are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tolerance" instead a noun "Ability".

Nearby Word: able

Tolerance noun - The capacity to endure what is difficult or disagreeable without complaining.

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Ability and tolerance are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ability" instead a noun "Tolerance".

human	human ability	human tolerance
good	good ability	good tolerance
high	high ability	high tolerance
physical	physical ability	physical tolerance
Other adjectives: better, natural, exceptional, poor, strong, increased, extreme, great, little, extraordinary, less, amazing, unusual, greater, strange, racial, newfound.

Watercrafters have the empathic ability to sense everyone's emotions, but might lack the pain tolerance of a metalcrafter to avoid going crazy from the mental cacophony.

Source: Literature / Codex Alera
Invincible Hero: Through no readily explained reason, Milo is an absolute stunning fighter with unlimited amounts of stamina, fighting ability and pain tolerance.

Source: Film / Pompeii
Metalcrafters tend to be the greatest swordsmen, since some of the metalcrafter skills include the ability to sense metal around you and act on that, as well as the ability to greatly increase your own endurance and pain tolerance (a famous duel between two metalcrafters lasted days).

Source: Extra-ore-dinary

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